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Is our way of life about to perish from Earth?

Kathryn Shroyer Groton

Publication: The Day

Published 11/29/2009 12:00 AM
Updated 11/29/2009 05:53 AM

Today as many of us are concerned that Uncle Sam is becoming Mother Sam and taking over our lives, Congress should be reminded of the words spoken by President Abe Lincoln in the Getteysburg Address.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have, thus far, so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth."
Is this form of government about to perish?

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